telegraf - exec plugin - aws ec2 ebs volumen info - metric parsing error, reason: [missing fields] or Errors encountered: [ invalid number]
Machine - CentOS 7.2 or Ubuntu 14.04/16.xx Telegraf version: 1.0.1 Python version: 2.7.5 Telegraf supports an INPUT plugin named: exec . First please see EXAMPLE 2 in the README doc there. I can't use JSON format as it only consumes Numeric values for metrics. As per the docs: If using JSON, only numeric values are parsed and turned into floats. Booleans and strings will be ignored. So, the idea is simple, you specify a script in exec plugin section, which should spit some meaningful info(in either JSON -or- influx data format in my case as I have some metrics which contains non-numeric values